Getting a little bit more back to the preparation thing, how are you handling the stress of you are now finishing the Wheel, it’s not even another installment, this is Tarmon Gai’don. Is this any additional stress you’re feeling, trying to deal with?
Robert Jordan wrote the ending, so that removes the greater bulk, I think, of that. There’s stress to working on all of these, but I wouldn’t say that this one has more stress than the others because my job has always been to get you to his ending without screwing it up. That’s my job.
And you’re doing it. Beautifully.
But, you know, in my mind these basically still are really one book, still. And when I write a book, I divide it up into sections in my head, anyway. Right now, I’m not even writing that. Right now I’m writing the prologue. And that section will get done, and I’ll write the next section, and the next section. And then I’ll get to the section that Robert Jordan did himself, and I can put that in, and that’s the ending. If I didn’t have that, this would be twenty times more stressful. I don’t know if it would be possible as a project if we didn’t have that.
That’s good to hear. Alan, Maria, do you have anything, stress levels or anything that you’re noticing, unique to dealing with the end right now?
Well, after all the typos and stuff in Towers , I’m really feeling compelled to do my darndest to have the next one be lots cleaner.
Though we will say, we can mention that there were a large number of beta readers from the Wheel of Time community, that we can now make share our blame, because they missed them all, too.
Oh, and I found one that—we had it absolutely perfect going in to Tor, but somehow a word just vanished into the ether.
Retire the RAFO cap.
It will be retired, but not yet.
You’ll still have to think, those things that aren’t supposed to be revealed that you know.
Yeah, there’ll be the things that aren’t supposed to be revealed. And those will have to be kept close to your heart.
That’s not a problem. No, I can’t RAFO, but it’ll be okay—just, ‘no comment’. I’ve been practicing that one.
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